Pleurectomy/Decortication (Neo) Adjuvant Chemotherapy and Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy to the Pleura in Patients With Locally Advanced Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
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Official title
Phase II Toxicity Study of Pleurectomy/Decortication, (Neo) Adjuvant Chemotherapy and Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy to the Pleura in Patients With Locally Advanced Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
Brief summary
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For patients with this type of cancer, the standard of care is treatment with chemotherapy. Radiation therapy is typically not used. This is because radiation to the entire lining of the lung has many side effects that are often severe including damage to the lung (pneumonitis). There is a new radiation technique using Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) that has been shown to reduce many of the side effects of standard radiation therapy. This type of radiation therapy specifically targets the lining of the lung, where you have your cancer, and reduces the risk of damaging the lung itself. The purpose of this study is to test the safety and implementation of standard pleurectomy/decortication (removal of the surface lining of the lung) and standard chemotherapy followed by IMRT performed at other centers. Patients will undergo pleurectomy/decortication chemotherapy and hemithoracic pleural IMRT to the pleura in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00715611
- Recruitment status
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Enrollment
- 65 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Pleurectomy/Decortication Procedure
- pemetrexed and cisplatin or carboplatin Drug
- Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy Radiation
Procedure · Drug · Radiation
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 80 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Oct 10, 2008
- Primary completion
- Jun 30, 2027
- Completion
- Jun 30, 2027
- Last update posted
- Aug 10, 2026
2008 – 2027
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 12
- U.S. states
- 6
- U.S. cities
- 12
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moffitt Cancer Center | Tampa | Florida | 33612 | — |
| Brigham and Women's Hospital | Boston | Massachusetts | 02115 | — |
| Mayo Clinic Cancer Center | Rochester | Minnesota | 55905 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering at Basking Ridge | Basking Ridge | New Jersey | 07920 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth | Middletown | New Jersey | 07748 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen | Montvale | New Jersey | 07645 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center @ Suffolk-Commack | Commack | New York | 11725 | — |
| Memoral Sloan Kettering Westchester | Harrison | New York | 10604 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York | New York | 10065 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering at Rockville Center, NY | Rockville Centre | New York | — | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau | Uniondale | New York | 11553 | — |
| Md Anderson Cancer Center | Houston | Texas | 77030 | — |
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- Last refresh
- Last update posted Aug 10, 2026 · Synced Sep 5, 2026
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